[SM-Discuss] Upgrade of libpng breaks qt-11!!

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Sun Aug 26 13:50:02 EDT 2007


On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:34:29AM -0600, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> [Resend from 20070820]
> 
> Folks, 
> 
> Over the weekend i upgraded my system. After the upgrade ran, all of my kde/qt 
> apps segfaulted upon launch. At first i blamed the espgs->ghostscript merger, 
> but after 12 hours of "cast --fix"  and messing about  i found that the 
> upgrade from libpng 1.2.18 to 1.2.19 is what broke it.
> 
> Compiling qt-x11 with 1.2.19 gives you 
>   /bin/sh: line 1: 19931 Segmentation fault      ./genembed $pics > 
> pixmaps.keramik
> 
> Moving back to 1.2.18 fixes this.
> 
> Just a heads up for all who use qt-x11/kde
> 
> If anyone wants a compile log of  the bad cast i'm happy to provide one.

This sounds like a serious bug. Haven't had any problems here, but I
don't use anything based on qt. I just tried starting the qt designer,
and that seems to work just fine though.
A compile log would probably be useful.
Is anyone else encountering this? We don't want to have all our kde
users running rampage ;)

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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